[Travis McGee]

Your post squares with what I heard on the grapevine, and fills in some gaps. I don't think there will or can ever be any kind of a military organization, no matter how loosely based, that cannot be penetrated by the feds. Maybe I'm wrong.

I just think it's more likely that at a certain point a tipping point could be reached where lots of individuals would begin to take direct action. One way might look like my book. Word spreads, others "get the idea" and dust off the .270.

Another scenario: cities become "welfare magnets" on an even more blatent scale. Guaranteed votes for food and fun. Rural areas are left to decay, ignored or worse while the fedgov pumps resources into the cities.

Farmer Brown gets tired of seeing the free food giveaways for votes in the nearby city, while he's going broke. So he shoots some power line insulators, figuring the folks in the city should be as miserable as him. The story spreads, and soon, insulator plinking becomes a national hobby for disaffected farmers.

That type of scenario could happen, as rural and urban begin a new kind of CW. And all "leaderless" with no organization, no phone tree, no "cells". Just individuals watching the news and saying, "hey, I could do that to, easy, in my state."

[Travis McGee]

Ping to a still-going CW thread.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Ross does describe something similat in his book. At one point, his fall guy for the Revolution "sends" a message describing some freelancing that has been going on.

"Doing this (sneaky stuff with a high probability of success and escape) is smart. Doing that (violent stuff leading to de facto martyrdom) is not smart." But he isn't really leading the revolutionaries, which the authorities find extremely frustrating.

As a historian, I consider revolution not only bloody, but also the least effective way to preserve liberty. I can't think of another in history than ours, that left people better off.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F